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![Jenkins & Anor v. Evans [2025] EWHC 2438 (Ch)](https://trustsbarrister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/rcj2.jpg?w=946)
Jenkins & Anor v. Evans [2025] EWHC 2438 (Ch)
Read more: Jenkins & Anor v. Evans [2025] EWHC 2438 (Ch)In a case where the ‘golden rule’ was not observed, and it was presumed that the appointment of Solicitor executors would be ‘abused… through improper charging’, the evidence of the Solicitor executor as to mental capacity was considered to carry ‘all the weight which the Court of Appeal in Hughes v Pritchard, at [79], contemplated…
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Bond & Anor v. Webster [2024] EWHC 1972 (Ch)
Read more: Bond & Anor v. Webster [2024] EWHC 1972 (Ch)No testamentary capacity where a non-Solicitor ‘private client practitioner’ failed to record any formal assessment of capacity for a wheelchair-bound testator with brain cancer, failed to request a proper assessment from the testator’s treating physician, and failed to record any reasons for departing from the previous Will or as to why the testator was not…
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![Leonard & Ors v. Leonard [2024] EWHC 321 (Ch)](https://trustsbarrister.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ut-rolls-building.jpg?w=907)
Leonard & Ors v. Leonard [2024] EWHC 321 (Ch)
Read more: Leonard & Ors v. Leonard [2024] EWHC 321 (Ch)A Will prepared by a Chartered Tax Adviser ‘who did not take any precautions to ensure… [the testator] had capacity’ is invalid – the testator’s ‘vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease had deprived him of the ability to understand the nature and effect of a number of the provisions in the… Will’: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2024/321